Official Left Behind Hate Thread - Absolute Schofield HERESY

[Luke Heaven 13!]

I always felt the rapture was very popular in southeastern US evangelism churches. Don't know how the mainline prots feel about it, but I'm certain many don't believe in it as well. Always felt like a confusing thing to me, and the more someone told me about the rapture, the more I got confused. But yeah, it's an old movie series (that i think got remade a few times) and many books that's popular in those circles.

During the late 90s to about 2015, the evangelical church ate this series up with a spoon to the point where they were certain Obama was the Carpathia stand in. It died out once good theology started hitting the mainstream internet.

Me, I'm more on the partial Preterist side of things, where most New Testament prophecies were either fulfilled around that time, or (especially Revelation's weirder bits) coded references to current events.

I’m post millennial, but I’m also very much in the camp that Revelations was not only John speaking about Rome and Caligula, but also explaining to Christians the cyclical nature of evil with Christ defeating it. Revelations is a fascinating book, and it was a shame that for nearly 20 years it was regarded as a doomsday plot.

Tim LaHaye is Baptist. Prosperity theology is a movement inside of Pentecostalism.

Jenkins also has shown to be non-denominational. I’ll give LaHaye and Jenkins grace in that they were not coming at the Left Behind series from a prosperity angle, but those books were very popular among the evangelical and prosperity circles which caused the false doomsday prophecies.

We just recently had one, Brandon Biggs, who Mike Winger and Jimmy Akin exposed all this previous failed doomsday prophecy tellings. All those doomsday tellings stem from the influence of the Left Behind series.

 

[ChampFantana]

Peretti's entertaining--Visitation and Illusion are also good ones. As are Ted Dekker (horror, thriller, and fantasy), Stephen Lawhead (historical fiction/fantasy, plus some sci-fi early on), and Randy Ingermanson (sci-fi, historical fiction, and Writing Fiction for Dummies).

Peretti is legit great.

Piercing the Darkness and This Present Darkness are solid reads.

I was also a big fan of the Cooper Kids Adventure series as a teenager.

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

I'll also back up the opinion that Peretti and Dekker are great reads even if you aren't religious.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

Piercing the Darkness and This Present Darkness are solid reads.

I've read both, I only liked This Present Darkness in spite of part of the ending where the FBI are portrayed as the good guys. I also felt like I was reading a 300 page Chick Tract, though I'm not complaining about that.

 

[Blissed]

lol, there was even a kids version of the "Left Behind" series. I remember finding the idea of the "end times" really freaky, mostly because of these shitty books and people treating them like the Bible, but thankfully I had good enough taste to dislike them. I had friends who were obsessed with those books. Between the Satanic panic and hysteria over the impending millennium, 90s American Christian media was like a paranoid fever dream.

Don't ask why but I read a bunch of the kid version and then read the first two books of the adult one and saw the first movie.

It was very popular amongst Pentecostal circles I was tangentially around and I was really into weird, esoteric shit at the time so the idea of a rapture where ancient prophecies were being fulfilled really interested me enough that I got into it.

They're not good books and I would even say that it's not a good story. It's not even good from a religious stand point,

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

Don't ask why but I read a bunch of the kid version and then read the first two books of the adult one and saw the first movie.

It was very popular amongst Pentecostal circles I was tangentially around and I was really into weird, esoteric shit at the time so the idea of a rapture where ancient prophecies were being fulfilled really interested me enough that I got into it.

They're not good books and I would even say that it's not a good story. It's not even good from a religious stand point,

I read both series in middle school and even gave up after Assassins because they were so poorly written. Also, I always wondered why the end times were portrayed in the book as some awful thing. It would basically prove the Bible was real, so why would you be all that bothered about dying? You'll be going to heaven anyways and if you live, you only suffer for 7 years and then have eternal bliss. Why worry? I'd be happy if the forces of the Antichrist killed me. It made all the drama and death of the characters in the book less impactful.